{"id":44300,"date":"2014-04-21T09:39:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T13:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=44300"},"modified":"2014-04-21T10:37:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T14:37:55","slug":"russians-sport-new-gear-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=44300","title":{"rendered":"Russians sport new gear in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=44302\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44302\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/spetnatz-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"spetnatz\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/spetnatz-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/spetnatz-452x333.jpg 452w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/spetnatz.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/apr\/20\/tactical-advantage-russian-military-shows-off-impr\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that the Russian special forces soldiers they are sending to the Ukraine are wearing their new body armor which may be impervious to small arms ammunition like the 5.56mm rounds that our troops use in their M4s and the 5.45mm that the Ukraine troops use in their AK74s. They are also using new communications devices.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat we saw and what was dangled in front of the West was a clear indication that Putin is on a roll,\u201d retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Robert Scales said. \u201cIt just seems to me from watching the films that their arrows are pointing up and ours are sadly pointing down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weapons specialists such as Gen. Scales have been studying images of Spetsnaz, Russia\u2019s ubiquitous special forces, and airborne troops since they conquered the Crimea region and mobilized to strike eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>What they see are the fruits of a modernization plan begun in 2008, not just in tanks and vehicles but all the way down to the individual warrior. Russia now has the world\u2019s third-highest defense budget, at over $70 billion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Russians have also been observed with steel core ammunition which the US BATFE considers armor-piercing. Of course, the Russians are increasing their military spending while we&#8217;re reducing our own. That shouldn&#8217;t cause any problems.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In all, Russian fighters, including Mr. Putin\u2019s hired guns of ex-military commandos who wear civilian clothes, have displayed a new inventory of rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers and rocket-propelled grenades. The Russians claim the RPG can kill a tank.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs of masked Spetsnaz troops in Crimea show them with what might be U.S.-designed sights and silencers on their assault rifles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They&#8217;re also probably ahead of us in shovel warfare as well (Giduck reference).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that the Russian special forces soldiers they are sending to the Ukraine &hellip; <a title=\"Russians sport new gear in Ukraine\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=44300\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Russians sport new gear in Ukraine<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}